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Life according to QOTSA
16 years ago
Filling that meme with QUEENS OF THE STONEAGE mostly because no one else I watch has done that band (that *I've* seen hurr forgive my A.D.D.) which is blasphemous because they are the epitome of *both* Stoner Rock and Desert Rock. Which may be the same thing anyway. But still D:
Now it's time to learn some QOTSA song titles! Because this meme fails at actually being very personally reflective ok admit it.
• Pick your Artist:
Queens of the Stoneage
• Are you a male or female?
Little sister
• Describe yourself:
I'm Designer
• How do you feel:
You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire
• Describe where you currently live:
River in the Road
• If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
Mexicola
• Your favorite form of transportation:
Auto Pilot
• What did you get on your last Birthday?
I Think I Lost My Headache
• Your best friend is:
Regular John
• You and your best friends are:
Tangled Up in Plaid
• What's the weather like:
The Sky is Fallin'
• Favorite moment:
Feel Good Hit of the Summer
• If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:
Era Vulgaris
• What is life to you:
A Song for the Dead
• Your last relationship:
You Can't Quit Me Baby
• Your fear:
Quick and to the Pointless
• What is the best advice you have to give:
Everybody Knows That You Are Insane
• Thought for the Day:
Give the Mule What He Wants because God is in the Radio
• How I would like to die:
Long Slow Goodbye
• My soul's condition:
Into the Hollow
• Most Faithful Companion:
Medication
• My motto:
Go With the Flow, but Suture Up Your Future
…Dammit, I didn't get to use the song "I Never Came" nor "I Was a Teenage Hand Model". Oh well. Otherwise damn easy, QOTSA's discography is extensively keen.
Now it's time to learn some QOTSA song titles! Because this meme fails at actually being very personally reflective ok admit it.
• Pick your Artist:
Queens of the Stoneage
• Are you a male or female?
Little sister
• Describe yourself:
I'm Designer
• How do you feel:
You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire
• Describe where you currently live:
River in the Road
• If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
Mexicola
• Your favorite form of transportation:
Auto Pilot
• What did you get on your last Birthday?
I Think I Lost My Headache
• Your best friend is:
Regular John
• You and your best friends are:
Tangled Up in Plaid
• What's the weather like:
The Sky is Fallin'
• Favorite moment:
Feel Good Hit of the Summer
• If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:
Era Vulgaris
• What is life to you:
A Song for the Dead
• Your last relationship:
You Can't Quit Me Baby
• Your fear:
Quick and to the Pointless
• What is the best advice you have to give:
Everybody Knows That You Are Insane
• Thought for the Day:
Give the Mule What He Wants because God is in the Radio
• How I would like to die:
Long Slow Goodbye
• My soul's condition:
Into the Hollow
• Most Faithful Companion:
Medication
• My motto:
Go With the Flow, but Suture Up Your Future
…Dammit, I didn't get to use the song "I Never Came" nor "I Was a Teenage Hand Model". Oh well. Otherwise damn easy, QOTSA's discography is extensively keen.
And no, you don't need to smoke weed to appreciate or play it. 9_9 I've been a fan of Monster Magnet since high school, and I didn't even drink until I was in my 20's.
Smoke more!
Just like developing a taste for an exotic or unusual/new food.
And you're not better because you like it or because you don't like it.
But in general appreciation is.... appreciated.
I don't say that as "don't diss a band I like grrrr", no fucking way I <3 differing opinion, but
That one may personally benefit existentially when they find a way to like what they'd normally hate.
I find a lot of bands I ADORE I initially *hated* at first because they were popular, or the few songs I heard from them were repetitive or unimpressive to me.
Or I was in a bad environment/ situation when I first heard them. And I will *still* usually hate the band, until I wade through the discography and (IF I) discover that their sound changes from album to album, if not from song to song. ***[/grey]
That they create an entirely different plane/scape of listening if you don't flip nor forward thru any of the songs, and patiently take the time to let the notes reverberate, collect, and destill inside your head. That maybe hey, you know, keeping this shit playing makes me daydream like WHOA and beautiful or fascinating imagery is flooding my mind. That last part, as a visual artist, is my favorite part... and sometimes I feel like it's SUCH a cheat too, haha. That I would NEVER have liked NIN as much as I do, until while listening to Year Zero (and later again to The Fragile) I crystallized an enormous epic plotline for a graphic novel in my head. Images similar to this. THEN I was quite the fan of the band. And I can recall the entire storyboard for the idea anytime I run through either albums on my playlist. It's not like I needed drugs to get that imagery, either-- most often it's that I listened to the album while on an hour+ roadtrip. Driving (and taking a shower) are activities that really allow your idle imagination to come in to your conscious forebrain loud & clear.
The best they (QOTSA) ever sounded to me, I wasn't on a damn thing, though I won't deny less sobriety at all other times. The funny truth is, that most sober time I was at a NIN show, who I already knew I adored, and QOTSA was their opener. And honestly... the show was a lot less enjoyable for me once QOTSA left the stage and Reznor the main act came on. I did not expect that. But Reznor's a brilliant songwriter-- and an incredible introvert. Josh Homme is an extrovert, a showman, and tries to rile an energy in everyone around him that... ah, shit, maybe it's just the memories I attach to the audio tracks nowadays. But damn. More often than not my opinion of a musician goes DOWN after I see a live performance.... QOTSA's didn't just improve, my love for them doubled.
In the end all I can say is, "maybe you'll hear it like I hear it someday." But just as likely you won't. And that's okay. I may never hear your favorite music the way you do either, but I know I like to try. Makes my imagination just that much more a formidable beast.
And for the record, I sooooo admit after temporarily relocating to the edge of the desert in Southern California and falling in love with it.... sure, the QOTSA/"Desert Rock" sounds and songtracks, they emotionally remind me too well of the feeling of being back there. But we all have our personalizations with the waveforms we love and how our lives have been with them as a constantly growing reflective soundtrack.
Sorry, LONGEST REPLY EVER but I was also kinda.. moved/ flattered that Turbine was posting *this much* in my journal too lol, ahaha, eek.
[color=grey]***Top10 prostitutes like Kanye, shit from American Idol or any use of Auto tuning I just completely exempt any attempts at. Lol just no. Nothing good to find in shit that was sans content /just-for-profit from the beginning.
that's the last time I try to do an asterisks footnote for where my train of thought is going--instead, a billion paranethese per sentence forever! WHOO YEAH.
Sorry Raeth dude.
brb, listening to "3s & 7s"
Have you heard any of the Kyuss albums?
I was keen how they were initially 'Katzenjammer', but I never found out if that was a reference to the oldschool comic-strip The Katzenjammer Kids or not..
Although the secret track he had on Songs in the Key of X disturbs me still to this day a bit. But disturbs me in the way I like, the way X-Files did in the best moments of its best episodes.
*looks up some magnet links for some Gutter Twins & Screaming Tress, though, hells yeah*
Thankya much :9
If you like Nick Cave, you might dig a band called 16 Horsepower, sort of evil spooky folk bluegrass. Hard to describe, look for a song called Black Soul Choir. ^^
Hard to find in good quality but very much worth it :)
if you like that, congratulations, you're a Kyuss fan. Demon Cleaner is my favorite Kyuss song :D
Awwww just about one month old now HOW CUTE I LOVE THEM AT THAT AGE T^T
THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP
*ravishly quests for torrent etc*
No
I will not be the one to draw those fuckers as vultures
NO NO NO I'LL LEAVE IT TO SOME CHANNER
hhnghh *wrestles with inner demons*
;_;
wtf man
I...have considered it as well....I DUNNO MAN. Was pretty surprised that the liner notes are pretty much packed with anthro vultures hahaha.
Wicked glad to turn you on to them! I was a tiny bit wary at first, because "supergroups" seem to usually be disappointments. I think because the chemistry of a band is way more important than just mushing individual talents together. BUT OH MAN. They got it. Picked up the album the week it came out and have been listening to it ever since. What can I say...Josh Homme pretty much owns my soul. :c